Name: Connecting with Ancestors Through Dreams and Active Imagination
Start: 2025-04-27T10:00:00-06:00
End: 2025-04-27T12:00:00-06:00
Location: Naropa University Nalanda Campus - Room 9180 (Dojo)

Connecting with Ancestors Through Dreams and Active Imagination

Learn how to identify ancestors in our dreams and how to invite a connection through active imagination, with questions and discussion.
About this Event

Ancestral work supports us on our path of knowing ourselves and the world, feeling a deeper sense of interconnection with all beings, and healing the generational and historic trauma that impacts our lives and our relationships every day and going forward into future generations.

This event will start with a short presentation on the value of connecting with our ancestors, looking at how to connect with them through active imagination and recognize them when they appear in our dreams. After a brief discussion, we'll move into the experiential portion, journeying with the drum to connect with our loving, supportive ancestors through a dream or our imagination, then sharing in the group. You can bring an ancestral dream you'd like to work with, or be open to making a connection during the journey. Please bring an item to place on the collaborative ancestral altar.

Marta Aarli, MA, LPC is a licensed psychotherapist and dream guide in Colorado. She integrates multiple dreamwork approaches, Gestalt inner parts dialogue, dream re-entry journeys, active imagination and ancestral connections. She has had a private practice for 30 years and continues to receive powerful, life altering dreams which guide her through her life. She offers individual and couples therapy, individual dream sessions, dream groups, and classes.

Marta has a Master’s Degree in Transpersonal Psychology from Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado (1995) and a Bachelor’s Degree in Music from UW-Madison in Wisconsin (1986). She is a an improvisational singer and musician and has published three books of poetry, including one of dream poetry called Dream Worlds. Marta is currently writing a book about dreaming for personal and collective healing.

Naropa University welcomes participants with diverse abilities. If you require accommodations, please contact Kristin Anderson-Bohan at [email protected] at least two weeks prior to the event.